The Revolt of Mamie Stover

Set in the early 1940s, as the Second World War is gathering pace, The Revolt of Mamie Stover follows a San Francisco woman who is forced out of the city and takes a ship to Honolulu hoping to begin again. On board she meets Jim Blair, a writer, and the two grow close, though Mamie arrives in Hawaii determined to make money rather than settle into the respectable life he pictures for her. She takes work as a dance hostess in a Honolulu club run with a strict hand by Bertha Parchman, a job that draws soldiers and servicemen. Jim reappears in her life, but his engagement and his decision to enlist pull against whatever future the pair might have, and Mamie's pursuit of wealth keeps complicating things. The story is a drama about ambition, money and a wartime romance placed under strain.

Raoul Walsh directed, working from a screenplay by Sydney Boehm, with Buddy Adler producing for 20th Century Fox. It is the twenty-first of the twenty-three films Walsh directed in chronological order, arriving between Battle Cry and The King and Four Queens. Jane Russell plays Mamie, Richard Egan plays Jim Blair, and the cast includes Joan Leslie, Agnes Moorehead, Jorja Curtright and Michael Pate among twenty-eight credited performers. Made on a budget of about two million dollars, the film runs ninety-two minutes. Audience ratings place it in moderate territory, at 6.4 out of ten on IMDb from roughly 1,200 votes and 6.5 out of ten on TMDB from a much smaller sample.